Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Karoline Van den Brande, Hans Bruyninckx, Sander Happaerts

      Pages 1-24

3. Subnational Sustainable Development Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. The Social and Political Construction of Sustainable Development in Quebec: A Critical Analysis of the Quebec Sustainable Development Policy

      • René Audet, Corinne Gendron

      Pages 27-48

   3. Inclusive Governance or Incrementalism? The Choice of a Sustainable Development Governance Model for Flanders

      • Kris Bachus, Sophie Spillemaeckers

      Pages 49-66

   4. Sustainable Development Policies in the Basque Country

      • Alberto Peña de la Varona, Iñaki Barcena Hinojal

      Pages 67-84

   5. Sustainable Development in Wallonia: Trial and Error along Two Tracks of Governance

      • Sander Happaerts

      Pages 85-102

   6. Governance for Sustainable Development in the German Bundesländer

      • Kirsten Jörgensen

      Pages 103-119

   7. Dutch Provincial Sustainable Development Policies: Ambitions and Differences

      • Frans H. J. M. Coenen

      Pages 120-138

4. Multi-Level Interactions in a Sustainable Development Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Spanish Subnational Involvement in Multi-Level Sustainable Development Issues

      • Kenneth Hanf, Francesc Morata

      Pages 141-159

   3. A ‘Responsibility’ to Act Globally: Investigating the Welsh Assembly Government’s Engagement in nrg4SD

      • Elin Royles

      Pages 160-179

   4. Routes to Global Decision-Making: Flanders in the UN and OECD Discussions on Sustainable Development

      • Karoline Van den Brande

      Pages 180-197

   5. Subnational Involvement in EU Policy-Making: The Case of Scottish Flood Risk Management

      • Anna-Lena Högenauer

      Pages 198-216

   6. Green Paradiplomacy in North America: Successes and Limits of the NEG-ECP

      • Annie Chaloux, Stéphane Paquin

      Pages 217-236

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. The State of Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Subnational Level

      • Sander Happaerts, Hans Bruyninckx, Karoline Van den Brande

      Pages 239-262

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-269

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This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

• Bundesländer
• decision-making
• European Union (EU)
• governance
• government
• OECD
• Policy
• sustainable development
• development policy
• development theory

• University of Leuven, Belgium

  Hans Bruyninckx, Sander Happaerts, Karoline Brande

RENÉ AUDET Associate Professor and Researcher at the Econoving Centre, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline, France KRIS BACHUS Sustainable Development Research Manager at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), K.U.Leuven, Belgium IÑAKI BARCENA HINOJAL Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Administration of the University of the Basque Country, Spain ANNIE CHALOUX École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP), Canada FRANS H.J.M. COENEN Senior Researcher at CSTM (the Twente Centre for Stu¬dies in Technology and Sustainable Development) at the Faculty of Management and Governance, University of Twente, the Netherlands ALBERTO DE LA PEÑA Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain CORINNE GENDRON Full Professor at the Department of Strategy, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada KENNETH HANF Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain ANNA-LENA HÖGENAUER Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands KIRSTEN JÖRGENSEN Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany FRANCESC MORATA Professor of Political Science and Administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain STÉPHANE PAQUIN Professor at the École nationale d'administration publique, Canada ELIN ROYLES Lecturer at the Institute of Welsh Politics, Department of Inter¬national Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK SOPHIE SPILLEMAECKER Researcher at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society), K.U.Leuven, Belgium EDWIN ZACCAI Full Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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